Title:  "Ming Garrisons (1363-1644)"

Principal Investigator: Prof. Michael Szonyi
Editor: John Wong

With Funding from the Chiang Ching Kuo Foundation
website: http://www.cckf.org.tw/


(c) 2008
Released for Academic Use Only  (GPL license)

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Citation:  Military Wei (Guards) and Suo (Battalions) of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)

This dataset is compiled from Liew, Foon Ming. The treatises on military affairs of the Ming dynastic history (1368-1644) : an annotated translation of the treatises on military affairs, chapter 89 and chapter 90 : supplemented by the treatises on military affairs of the draft of the Ming Dynastic History : a documentation of Ming-Qing historiography and the decline and fall of the Ming Empire (Hamburg : Gesellschaft f�r Natur- und V�lkerkunde Ostasiens, 1998.)

The geographic information is based on CHGIS V3 datasets.

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Data Dictionary

Wei_id   unique ID for each wei / suo (garrison)
type_ch  type (wei or suo)
orig_id  from draft file
src  chgis
name_py  garrison name in Pinyin
name_ch  garrison name in Chinese UTF8
point_id  CHGIS Point ID (in some cases more than one garrison associated with a single CHGIS Point)
latitute in decimal degrees
longitude  in decimal degrees
beg_yr  year the garrison was established
end_yr  year the garrison was abolished (or end of Ming if not known)


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Distributed by CHGIS:
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